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Collective Bargaining and Compensation in Health Care We have focused on wages and compensation of production workers in the automobile industry. However, the largest U.S. unions by membership. the National Education Association (NEA) and Service Employees international Union (SEIU) now primarily represent workers in other occupations, induding teachers and health care workers. As of 2020 , there were more union members (11 million) in the occupation, healthcare practitioners and technical occupations. than in production occupations (870.000). Here, we would like you to take some time to tamiliarize yourself with a contract in the health care area. One excellent resource is found at https://wwwseluheoithcaremn.org/worksites/. (Should the link not work, search for: SEIU HEALTHCARE MINNESOTA. Then look for "contracts" andior "worksites.") it provides access to many collective bargaining contracts in heathcare in Minnesota for workers represented by the SEIU. You can check the different worksites and you will sce that some have links to contracts. One example at the time your book goes to press can be found under: HealthParthers Stillwater Medical Group. In this particular contract, wage rates appear on pp. 14- 15 and in Appendix A. Whatever contract(s) you examine, check for information on wage rates. wage progression, and other aspects of compensation. 1. As you may recal, in (S Chapter 10, you read a section called "The Important Role of Promotion in Pay for Performance." Toward the end of $ Chapter 11, you read a section on merit increase grids. In those sections, the emphasis was on the importance of performance (typicaliy assessed with a performance rating assigned by the immediate supervisor and sometimes others also) in determining pay growthincreases over time, both in (a) promotions (to higher grade/pay levels) and (b) pay (merit) increases within grade ieveis. When you look at Article 18 and Appendix A, what role does performance rating play in promotions and pay increases within grades? 2. Your answer to the above question should be: "Performance does not play a role., OK, so what does play a role (or more. accurately perhaps, "the role' in this contract in determining pay growth over time? 3. Take a moment to comment on the different wage scaies for different occupations: Also, briefly comment on the degree to which rates of progression are similar or dfferent (in percentage terms). 4. If you were a manager in this heaithcare setting. how would the presence of the contract and its provisions on how pay is determined influence your ability to achleve effectiveness goais
